Boas
Boas means:
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Boas (family) (Boidae), a family of giant snakes
- Sand boas (Erycinae), subfamily of the boas (Boidae)
- Boaschnangen or real boas (Boinae), subfamily of the boas (Boidae)
- Dwarf boas (Ungaliophiinae), subfamily of the boas (Boidae)
- Boas (East Malaka) , capital of the Indonesian district of East Malaka on Timor
- Boaz (biblical person) , Judean landowner from Bethlehem
- Boaz , a pillar in the temple of Jerusalem, see Jachin and Boaz
Boas is the family name of the following people:
- Albert Boas (1878–1950), German judge at the Supreme Court
- Eduard Boas (1815-1853), German writer
- Franz Boas (1858–1942), German ethnologist and ethnosociologist
- Franziska Boas (1902–1988), American dance teacher and choreographer
- Friedrich Boas (1886–1960), German botanist and phytomedicist
- George Boas (1891–1980), American philosopher
- Günter Boas (1920–1993), German musician and music journalist
- Hans Christian Boas (* 1971), linguist
- Hans Ulrich Boas (* 1940), German linguist
- Harald Boas (1882–1961), Danish-German dermatologist
- Harold P. Boas (* 1954), American mathematician
- Horst Boas (* 1928), German writer
- Irmgard Boas (* 1928), German opera singer specializing in dramatic-highly dramatic soprano
- Isaac Herbert Boas (1878–1955), Australian forest scientist
- Ismar Boas ( Ismar Isidor Boas ; 1858–1938), German gastroenterologist
- Johan Erik Vesti Boas (1855-1935), Danish zoologist
- Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas (1903–1968), Brazilian clergyman, Archbishop of Paraíba
- Peter van Emde Boas , Dutch computer scientist
- Ralph Boas (1912–1992), American mathematician
- Walter Boas (1904–1982), German-Australian physicist
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